News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-30
STOWE.

n. B. Faunce and others are doing
much repairing on their houses.
The streets and walks should be re-
paired and cleaned before the 4th.
o. B. Church, of Underhill, spent a
few days last week with his brother, the
doctor.
The rain of last week has doomed all
kinds of crops, and the harvest looks
promising.
Rev. Mr.. Webster, of Waterbury, oc-
cupied the desk at the M. E. and Branch
churches on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Stone, of Swan
ton, are stopping with her father E. X
Hale and other friends.
Miss Maggie Smith, of Spring field
Mass, sister of Mrs. G. n. Thomas, has
been in town for while.
Rev. Mr.. Walbridge, now of Peterbo.
70, n. H., was in town over Sunday anC
preached at Unity church.
Asa Cakes is at home from Brooklyn
N. Y, for vacation. He has been at
tending a commercial school for few
months.
Rev. S. G. Bean, of Salem, Mass, mis-
.sionarS. or organizer of work i'll the
Universalist denomination, was in town
Friday and Saturday.
Mr.. Arquette, of the Forks, after Il long
sickness from consumption, died on Sat
urday morning. Funeral services were
attended at the house on Sunday, Rev
Mr.. Marshall officiating.
We shall say but little this week about
the coming 4Th. Everybody knows that
last year we had the biggest thing in the
way of a celebration that was ever seen
in Vermont, and the exercises of this
year will entirely eclipse those of last
year. Amid the music of the different
bands, the boom of cannon, the discharge
of musketry, torchlight professions, eX-
tensive display of flags, antiquities and
horribles, movements of the various
grand army posts, athletic sports of le-
viathens of the deep. fire works, balloon
assertions, burlesque fire brigade, i'm
mense illuminated arches, terrible con-
flicts between Indians and cowboys.
speeches, songs, and day full Of mirth
and jollity, there will be food for the
memory for lifetime.
We had the pleasure last week of meet
ing Mr.. Albert Mason, of Gardener.
Mass. He had been to Burlington to at
tend the late encampment of the Old VT
ID, and there met his surviving comrades
in Co. G of that regiment. On his return
home he felt it both an obligation and
Peter Quinn, who. though of a New
Hampshire regiment. stood much nearer
and dearer to him than by any possibili-
ty a comrade could stand. They were
for six long months prisoners together il
that terrible slaughter hole called Ander-
sonyille. The horrors of that death per
cannot be described. Mr.. Mason is {
man of soldier like bearing, with gen
ial and pleasing address, and is ONT
who remembers, as well as reciprocates
acts of kindness. Mr.. Mason and Mr.
Quinn, during their imprisonment, theil
lives all the time hanging in the balance
became fast friends, and only by thei
mutual assistance were they able to keel
alive until paroled. Discharged at dit
ferent times and going in different direc
tions, they have not previously met sine,
their confinement in rebeldom. MIR. Ma
son brought with him cane which h
made from piece of the stockade. Tn
wood is white pine, heavily mounted ant
| ferruled in silver, which is extensively
and appropriately inscribed. One in
| scription is a representation of a ragged
and emaciated prisoner attempting t.
make his escape, and being overtaken b.
bloodhound is seized by the throat ant
| dragged down. At the time they werI
| in prison 81, 900 Union soldiers were Their
confined, IL, 900 of whom now lie burieC
in pits and trenches in adjacent fields.